Of all the ways in which crypto is a scourge, this is the most bonkers. 2025, year when brutal home invasions to steal laptops and crypto wallet passwords surged.

Back when Mark Carney was a central banker he said that “In a multi-polar world, you need a multi-polar currency,”& said USD as a reserve currency is too risky & proposed a new digital currency to replace it. We asked Shahin Vallee to look into a global euro www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-g...

Faute de mieux, penser à eux

Probably @alanbeattie.bsky.social but that’s not my first instinctive reaction. Quite incredible and deserving of a response. After European ICC judges / British prosecutor under US sanctions, a former EU commissioner... Soon members of HMG when one dares standing up to the US…

We're launching the final 2025 issue of @elsewherejournal.bsky.social today, on the theme of "Palimpsest".

"We’ve got roughly 120 kWh sitting in our garage, thanks to our Nissan Leaf and Hyundai Ioniq. And we’ve got almost 40 kW of solar on the roof. So we’re already at the delicious point where we don’t get power bills - the energy company pays us." www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/colour-...

“In June, Christine Lagarde declared ambitions to create a ‘global euro.’ Yet at neither the European Commission, nor the Eurogroup, nor the European Council, has a real discussion about internationalization taken place.” NEW by @shahinvallee.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-g...

Mitt Romney: Tax the Rich, Like Me www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...

NEW: In this moment of profound uncertainty over the global monetary order, Europe needs to move swiftly on becoming a truly global currency issuer, writes @shahinvallee.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-g...

Very much agree with @veron.bsky.social except his point 5. I don’t think the reparation loan will be revived. Europeans have proven they can do without.

How can the EU build stronger resilience amid global power shifts & unprecedented threats to its democracy, economy, security? Join us on 10 Dec for a discussion w/ excellent speakers @dschwarzer.bsky.social @shahinvallee.bsky.social @georginaewright.bsky.social www.delorscentre.eu/en/events-at...

‼️Last chance to register! Today at 2pm CET, we have the pleasure to host this fantastic group of experts for our online panel following the #PariserPlatzDialogue. Register by 12pm and find out how the #EU can become more resilient amid global power shifts. 👉 www.delorscentre.eu/en/events-at...

❓ How can the France, Germany and the EU build greater resilience amid unprecedented threats that challenge long-standing assumptions? Find out at our discussion following the #PariserPlatzDialogue! 🗓️ 10 December, 2:00 - 3:30pm, online via #Zoom. Sign up now 👉 www.delorscentre.eu/en/events-at...

Une belle emission sur le système monétaire international

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s episode is the second part of David’s conversation with historian Julian Jackson about the case of Marshal Pétain and the crimes of the Vichy regime. Did Pétain really play a ‘double game’ in which he tried to deceive the Nazis? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

How can democratic socialists like Zohran find investments for the things people desperately need? Come to my talk today at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU (link below) with @shahinvallee.bsky.social to discuss the thorny knot of finance and democracy, and how to cut it!

Here's the early vote in the NYC mayor's race: 52% Mamdani, 40% Cuomo, 8% Sliwa. Stay tuned! web.enrboenyc.us/OF11CY0PY3.h...

France's budget drama will come at steep cost for public finances • Political instability and loss in investor confidence are fuelling borrowing costs • France's ten-year borrowing costs are now roughly on a par with those of Italy

@adamtooze.bsky.social at the New School for the inaugural @lrb.co.uk lecture

Extraordinary Mamdani speech defending Muslim life in the US. a breath of fresh air to see a politician standing up for principles. Standards in the US have fallen so low lately…

This is a truly great film, probably the best film I’ve seen in 2025 (it was released in France in 2024...). Boris Lojkine tackles the issue of immigration and its various layers of exploitation with realism and subtlety. Compelling and disturbing. youtu.be/Rbs53_uMw9o

China’s Rare Earth Restrictions Aim to Beat U.S. at Its Own Game www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/b...

New report out now with @granthamlse.bsky.social CETEx: "A framework for central banks navigating political uncertainty in the transition" cetex.org/publications...

Par rapport à 2024: Le RN confirme sa large domination (33-34%). Le bloc macroniste recule nettement (14-16%). LR remontent un peu (12-13%). Reconquête en hausse (5-6%). Le NFP, le meilleur scénario, mais il mais baisse par rapport à 2024 (-4%). Le PS confirme qu’il est le premier parti à gauche.

Great move! Merz is picking up on a proposal his predecessor as party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer suggested to him in our pages back in May ip-quarterly.com/en/op-ed-how...

One of the most important charts in the world - from Rush Doshi in the New York Times. Without its allies, the United States is woefully behind China in metrics of raw economic power. Too bad the US president does not seem to get it. 1/

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today David talks to @leaypi.bsky.social about her new book 'Indignity: A Life Reimagined'. A conversation about death and displacement, identity and betrayal, secrecy and salvation. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

Absolutely fantastic piece on the interfaces between climate risk and insurance in the Polycrisis newsletter today, by @70sbachchan.bsky.social and @katemac.bsky.social Not a doom loop, but “communities of fate” and the moral economy of the welfare state. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...

Great speech on the foundational role of the rule of law for Europe and the Euro

on.ft.com/4lZ4i7X France’s curse and Bayrou’s political suicide

France must get creative to confront its fiscal deficit— As he has done in the past, Macron should force Bayrou to carry on his obligations temporarily as a caretaker and… www.ft.com/content/1f8d... @shahinvallee.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

on.ft.com/3JtO0X9 France must get creative to confront its fiscal deficit

For reasons, checking in on foreign official holdings of US treasuries at the Fed. Now down $100 billion since 'Liberation day'. Note: That latest data point with the biggest weekly drop yet is from *before* Trump's attempted firing of the Fed governor. Next release will be interesting (Thursday).

« Le monde ne nous regarde pas avec bienveillance : il n’attend pas la lenteur de nos rituels communautaires pour nous imposer sa force. [Il] exige de nous une transformation radicale. » Un nouvel avertissement salubre de Mario Draghi, via le @grandcontinent.bsky.social.

This is outstanding. God knows what Labour is doing: legitimising the racism that'll be its undoing, losing the coalition which put it in office, trying to secure voters who will never support it, digging its own moral grave. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

“Europe is risking its political soul. It has put itself in a situation in which leaders cannot say publicly what they are actually trying to do. That is a recipe for distrust and a poison for democracy” on.ft.com/3HH41Ze

🪧 Le 17 août 2025, des dizaines de milliers d’Israéliens étaient rassemblés pour demander la fin de la guerre. Mais qu'en est-il du sort des #palestiniens ? 👉 Quelques réponses avec Denis Charbit, politiste, Sylvaine Bulle, sociologue et Elad Lapidot, professeur d'études hébraïques

"Even if the 'window of opportunity' for a more profound Social Europe had been grasped in the 1970s, how different would it have turned out to be?" From 2023, Neil Warner reviews Social Europe, The Road not Taken, by Aurélie Dianara Andry

Spot-on by Gilles Gressani (@grandcontinent.bsky.social‬): "Europe’s submission [...] amounts to the rejection of any substantial autonomy in exchange for protection." www.ft.com/content/0fa0...

On Monday, join us for: ARGENTINA’S DEBT TRAP A discussion on Argentina, debt, and the IMF with: Julia Strada, Chris Marsh, ‪@nakedkeynes.bsky.social‬, Hernan Letcher, and Maria Haro Sly. Register here: bit.ly/argentina-fmi Below, a 🧵 on relevant pieces from the archive—

1/ Trump's recent trade agreements with allies are revealing significant interpretation gaps. From Japan to South Korea to the EU, these deals lack formal documentation, creating ongoing disputes over fundamental terms.

Peut-on sortir de la civilisation du #plastique ? Une émission à réécouter sur le site france culture.

"While EDIP and SAFE represent the EU's most ambitious defense industrial initiatives to date, their design reveals the persistence of the same fundamental contradictions that have shaped European defense policy for over seven decades."

My first paper of my dissertation 'Patrimonial Relations. Kinship, capital and conflict in super-rich Families' is out now on open access! Here I discuss how super-rich families use relational work on affective family ties as an economic resource. @bupjournals.bsky.social

« La fête est un moment de désordre organisé », d'après Philippe Steiner. 👉 Vous pouvez réécouter l'émission de vendredi « Où va la fête ? » avec Philippe Steiner, Emmanuelle Lallement et Alexandre Grondeau sur le site de France Culture.